“…The use of prophylactic antibiotics in head and neck surgery has been well reviewed and accepted in the surgical articles [2,8]. Prospective, randomized, trials have uniformly accepted that perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis has a key role in patients undergoing cleancontaminated or contaminated head and neck surgery, because without receiving antibiotics, the infection rate approaches 80-100% [3,9] in the wound infection rate to <10% by using appropriate perioperative antibiotic regimes [2,8]. Controversy, however, exists over the length and type of antibiotics [10,11].…”